OFFICE LOCATIONS Alabama
Goodwyn Mills Cawood (GMC) is one of the largest architecture and engineering firms in the Southeast, with over 650 professionals located throughout our 26 offices. At GMC, every project is guided by the foundational concept that communities are built by people, not companies, and we strive to serve our communities with quality, integrity, creativity and care.
By having multiple disciplines under one roof, we are able to streamline communication, improve efficiency, and enhance the quality of service to our clients. GMC’s integrated team provides a depth of expertise that allows us to capture the “big picture” and understand the details a project requires. Utilizing our comprehensive approach, we look at each project from many vantage points to identify creative solutions.
Cover: South Georgia Medical Center | Valdosta, GA
Back: Oklahoma University Medical Center Surgery Center | Oklahoma City, OK
Our Healthcare Expertise
• Master Planning
• Acute Care Hospitals
• Ambulatory Surgery Centers
• Freestanding Emergency Departments
• Outpatient Services
• Sports Medicine and Wellness
• Medical Office Buildings
• Rehabilitation
• Senior Living
• Psychiatric Centers
• Research
Committed to achieving outstanding patient-focused environments through high-quality planning and design, GMC is a collaborative organization driven by the power of building better, happier, healthier, thriving communities.
Our primary objective is to align your entire real estate and facilities portfolio to support the evolutionary nature of healthcare and the strategic direction of your organization. Our services include market analysis, catchment, need, payor mix, and services deployment in areas which the healthcare system serves or intends to serve. Based on market trends, change, Lean and Six Sigma operational efficiencies, existing facilities condition audits, and competitive issues, we then make recommendations on service alignment and evolving your facilities.
1.0 Project Initiation Kickoff/Collect Data/Confirmation
2.0 Assess Strategic Initiatives
3.0 Market Demand Analysis and Baseline Projections
4.0 Assess Site, Infrastructure, Facilities and Departmental Operations
5.0 Innovative Delivery Systems and Future Market Scenarios
6.0 Conduct Space Benchmark Analysis
Our three-phase approach entails close collaboration with stakeholders from the C-suite, facilities
Patients are the center of our process. We seek to understand the patient workflow and utilize process-led design. The results are consumer-driven solutions with an emphasis on positive patient experience, infection control, clinical efficiency, and optimal patient flow.
GMC’s clients include academic medical institutions, community-based, not-for-profit health systems, for-profit healthcare companies, and rural healthcare entities. Our understanding of health departments, regulatory codes, and guidelines is a key asset to ensuring your project is completed with quality assurance.
Medical office buildings (MOB) are an integral part of the healthcare system. GMC works with developers, as well as health systems and private practice physicians, to design nontraditional MOBs that respond to current treatment model trends.
Phase I: Data Collection: Our team begins the process with a shadowing and Q&A session designed to better understand current space utilization, current patient flow, current provider and staffing models, and future plans for the practice.
Phase II: Program Development: Based on observations and data collected in Phase I, we will develop a space program for the practice. The program is a detailed room-by-room list of all spaces needed for developing an efficient practice.
Phase III: Concept Plan/Test Fit: Once the program has been approved by the client, the GMC team will develop a conceptual floor plan designed for efficiency and based on the needs of the practice. We will review the conceptual plan with the client and physician group, and modify as needed to ensure the final product meets everyone’s goals.
Medical advancements and modern technologies have made it possible for more procedures to be performed in outpatient settings. Ambulatory Surgery Centers must be designed to foster efficient workflow, flexibility, future growth, security, ergonomics, safety, and comfort for both patients and staff.
Freestanding Emergency Departments (FEDs) offer real cost benefits. These facilities provide opportunities for more rapid expansion into markets and improved throughput with efficient patient treatment. The incorporation of admissions holding areas expedites the patient admission process, and split-track treatment options help provide the appropriate level of care. Other design standards include integrating point-of-care testing and developing flexible treatment rooms.
Top Right: Animas Ambulatory Surgery Center | Durango, CO
Bottom Left: Optim Ambulatory Surgery Center | Savannah, GA
Bottom Right: EAMC Freestanding Emergency Department | Auburn, AL
By bringing together our healthcare and sports design specialty groups, we have been able to develop creative solutions for a diverse range of clients, from K-12 and higher education to healthcare. We offer architecture expertise in sports medicine and orthopedics, physical therapy, and imaging projects that centers on the diagnosis and treatment of sports-related injuries and conditions.
Senior living communities require specialized needs dependent on the levels of care offered. Whether developing independent living and active adult communities, assisted living, memory care or Alzheimer’s care communities, nursing and long-term care, or continuing care retirement communities, our team is there to guide you every step of the way. As a multidisciplinary firm, GMC has the capability to assign the full spectrum of services needed to develop these communities from start to finish. This includes services associated with land planning, permitting, infrastructure, and building your continuum of care community.
Our academic medical design experience involves the development of facilities for large, established institutions dedicated to research, teaching, and care, where researchers and patients are seeking treatment for some of the most complex and specialized cases. Space-needs vary depending on several factors such as learning environments, consulting specialists, and increased levels of diagnostic and treatment capabilities.
With the Affordable Care Act shifting healthcare’s focus to improving population health, controlling cost, and evolving payment structures, academic medical institutions have had to reassess the services they provide and the facilities in which they are provided. Competition and accessibility have challenged these institutions to address operational inefficiencies of existing space and to expand services beyond acute care into ambulatory and off-campus settings.
Utilizing a patient-centered care approach that combines expertise and national experience, GMC’s team of healthcare architects can assist you with speed-to-market solutions for new construction and renovation projects, from outpatient facilities and greenfield hospitals, to complex diagnostic and interventional platforms.
Whether designing schools, parks, hospitals, and other commercial developments, or providing clean water, safe streets, and restoring resilient environments, GMC takes great pride in serving our communities through the transformative work we do. Every project is guided by the foundational concept that communities are built by people, not companies, and we strive to serve our communities with quality, integrity, creativity, and care.
“Surgery partners has been working with GMC on healthcare projects across the country for over a decade. Our continued relationship speaks volumes to our level of trust and confidence we have in their healthcare team and the quality of design in which they produce. Our project types range from complicated phases renovation and addition projects to freestanding surgery centers, medical office buildings, and surgical hospitals. It is without hesitation that I would recommend GMC as a healthcare design partner.”
— Michael Kump, Vice President of Facility Development at Surgery Partners
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